City councillors overwhelmingly rejected adding more wards before 2021 to address concerns of heavier workloads as Calgary’s population continues to balloon — but approved a $1.7 million increase to their annual office budgets.

Generational shifts and expectations play a major role in the evolution of your career and workplace. The three generations now in Canada's workforce, and to a great extent the tensions between them, have a profound impact on our economy and our lives.

As the city grows by more than 30,000 newcomers every year, Calgary police say the changing demographics will invite more organized crime and social disorder that can only be dealt with more resources. In presenting their four-year action plan to a city committee Friday, police estimate they’ll need to increase their operating budget by at least $7 million by 2018.

That smaller city to the north — you know, the one with the legislature and that megamall — is now growing at a faster clip than booming Calgary. There are 877,926 Edmontonians, according to the city’s 2014 census released Friday. While that remains a far cry from Calgary’s nearly 1.2 million, the capital’s two-year growth rate of 7.4 per cent is greater than Stampede City’s 6.7 per cent.

After hiding underground for a century, about 20 pieces of railroad infrastructure are being carefully preserved through a chance encounter with the past. Utility corporation Enmax was digging at one of its three downtown substations last week when it found metal objects under a layer of rocks.

Calgary’s population is set to increase by nearly one million people in the next three decades, the province believes, but the real growth may be hiding outside city limits. The Alberta government’s population projection report is picking the provincial head count to top 6.2 million by 2041, with Calgary and Edmonton accounting for the bulk of the extra numbers.

CALGARY - Men have a critical role to play in creating inclusive workplaces, yet too often they remain an untapped resource in gender initiatives. Research done by the Catalyst non-profit organization shows that the more men know about gender inequalities, the more likely they are to lead efforts to close the gender gap.

Mental health officials gearing up to deal with long-term psychological issues emerging from last spring’s floods are keeping a close watch as the first anniversary of the deluge draws near. Alberta’s mental health chief says the province has seen a “modest increase” in issues among affected residents in the past several months. Officials are now turning attention toward tracking lasting psychological concerns, said Dr. Michael Trew.

As Alison Redford met the Progressive Conservative Party board Saturday amid concerns about her troubled leadership, some Tory MLAs used social media to air less-than-subtle grievances about the Alberta premier and caucus representatives.

As Alison Redford met the Progressive Conservative Party board Saturday amid concerns about her troubled leadership, some Tory MLAs used social media to air less-than-subtle grievances about the Alberta premier and caucus representatives.

A former Calgary medical examiner who has had 13 of his case findings disputed is suing Alberta’s justice minister and other staff for $30 million. In his defamation statement of claim, former assistant Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Evan Matshes alleges that the actions of the government “were undertaken maliciously and with the deliberate intention to cause (him) harm and in an effort to ruin (his) career, and are an abuse of public office.”

To look into the eyes of a frog is to travel back in time. The earliest amphibians hoisted themselves out of the water some 370 millions years ago, long before there were any birds in flight, mammals scurrying around or even dinosaurs stomping the Earth.

Archeological records showing widespread and consistent Pacific herring abundance on B.C’s coast suggest fisheries officials are massively overestimating the current health of the fishery and misinterpreting spawning patterns, according to a Simon Fraser University study released Monday. Dwindling and inconsistent spawning returns characterized in Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) analysis are in stark contrast to the picture of herring abundance and consistency over the past 2,500 years, shown in nearly half a million fish bone samples collected from 171 First Nations archeological sites ranging from Washington State to Alaska.

Standing in the jungle in Borneo, wilting on a humid 40C afternoon, even just breathing can drench you completely. So my husband, three-year-old son and I tried to move as little as possible on the viewing platform, chins perched on the wooden railing that separated us from the deep verdant jungle — giant trees stretching to the sky, dense low-level vegetation dripping with moisture, and thick vines zigzagging among the branches. Then, high up in the canopy, the leaves started to move. Every one of us in the small crowd on the boardwalk looked up, eager for a first sighting. My toddler, meanwhile, had already had enough. “I’m hot. Can we go now?”

Alberta’s population has cracked four million, according to new figures from Statistics Canada. Provincial population estimates released Thursday put the number of Alberta residents at 4,025,074 as of July 1.

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